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* What is the difference between (deactivate-mark) and (setq deactivate-mark t)?
@ 2021-04-03  3:42 Marcin Borkowski
  2021-04-03  4:11 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2021-04-03  3:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Well, I understand what each of them does, but whay was the variable
introduced and why would I want to  say `(setq deactivate-mark t)' in
a command instead of just calling `(deactivate-mark)'?  I can't think of
any possible reasons.  Any ideas?

TIA,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl



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